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ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND

Monkey Island’s owner sues the woman who

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atherine Montes killed the lights on her Ford Explorer as she approached the Monkey Island Rescue and Zoological Sanctuary the night of October 6, 2007. On Harris Road, near Greenwood, the sanctuary was shrouded in darkness.

Montes, who had volunteered at Monkey Island for a few years, pulled her SUV up to the sanctuary building that housed dozens of monkeys. She let herself in with her own set of keys. Inside, a security camera taped Montes as she fed two pigtail macaques: Nicholas and Abbey. She gave them grapes spiked with the animal anti-anxiety drug acepromazine and later injected them with ketamine, a knockout agent. Out of the camera’s view, she picked up a third monkey, Melissa. She put Nicholas and Abbey into animal crates, which she loaded into her Explorer, and left the property with her SUV’s lights still off. Eleven months later, Abbey and Nicholas were returned home.

Melissa never was.

In a civil trial at the Jackson County Courthouse Annex in Independence last we e k , Monte s’ ac t ion s weren’t in question. She G O L P E R MO INE AT didn’t deny taking the monkeys, which weigh ONL M / P L O G 30–35 pounds each. At P IT C H .C O the scene of the abduction, she had even left a letter for Dana Savorelli, the nonprofit’s owner, to explain why she took them. What was debated during the threeday trial was whether Montes and her two co-defendants should have to pay damages to Savorelli for taking the monkeys.

Montes and her attorney, Donald Petty, claimed that this was not a theft. They assured the jury that Montes had permission to take the animals. On the stand, Montes recalled a dinner with co-defendant Joe Shinkle, the president of Monkey Island. The two met to talk at the Alamo Mexican restaurant in North Kansas City in August 2007. There, both Shinkle and Montes asserted, he gave her his blessing to take the monkeys.

Shinkle, dressed in black jeans and a crisp shirt and tie, his long, black, wavy hair slicked back in a Kenny Powers mullet, testified that Montes told him: “I want to take the monkeys.” And he agreed that she should take them. Neither defendant told Savorelli about the arrangement.

Savorelli and his attorney, David Wylie, argued that Shinkle didn’t have the authority to give away the trio of simians. Over the course of the trial, Shinkle and Savorelli repeatedly testified that Shinkle did nothing as the president of the nonprofit. Shinkle even admitted that he saw the paperwork registering Monkey Island with the Secretary of State only once — when he signed it. Savorelli called it “a paper corporation” that has never had meetings and holds zero assets. Shinkle and Montes claimed, however, that the president was entitled to give away the monkeys.

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Savorelli met Shinkle and his two brothers when the Shinkles were children in the 1980s.

Savorelli described their relationship as “real tight.” He testified that he tried to shield Joe Shinkle from his mother, Lisa, another codefendant who served 20 days in jail in 2009 for hiding Abbey and Nicholas in her basement after Montes took them. Lisa Shinkle did not make an appearance or hire a lawyer.

“I didn’t like what I seen,” Savorelli said when describing his first encounter with Lisa.

Savorelli recalled taking Joe and his brothers to the movies for the first time when Joe was 10 or 12. “They had never been or seen anything like it,” he said.

In the early 2000s, Joe and his brothers lived rent-free on Monkey Island. “It was like a bachelor pad,” Savorelli recalled, saying they rode four-wheelers and cared for the animals together.

Eventually, Joe Shinkle began working for Savorelli’s business, making tongs for snake handling. Their close relationship is what led Savorelli in 2005 to ask Shinkle to be the president of the Monkey Island nonprofit.

Wylie repeatedly contended that Shinkle had never done any work as president of the nonprofit. He asked Shinkle for proof of his responsibilities or minutes from a board meeting, but Shinkle couldn’t provide them.

Shinkle, who appeared uncomfortable and occasionally stubborn, murmured many answers. He said he didn’t remember things.

To get answers, Wylie had to show Shinkle transcripts of his previous testimony and depositions.

The most damaging testimony against Montes and Shinkle’s story came from Danny Kolwyck, co-owner of Savanahland, a company that breeds exotic animals and shows

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them at events. Kolwyck was to testify that the monkeys Montes stole were valued at around $2,000 apiece, not the $5,000 each that Savorelli was hoping to recover. Under cross-examination, Kolwyck conceded that his monkeys, kangaroos and other animals are tallied on a corporate asset list for his company. Because Savorelli’s nonprofit didn’t keep a similar list, Kolwyck’s testimony indicated that Abbey, Nicholas and Melissa were Savorelli’s personal property and not property of the nonprofit, as Shinkle claimed.

Montes’ defense shaped an image of her as a committed volunteer, who had a falling-out with Savorelli after an accident. Savorelli and Montes first met in 1998 after Montes became interested in owning a primate. Montes contacted Lisa Shinkle, who put her in touch with Savorelli. Montes bought Nicholas for $2,750 shortly after he was born and took him to her Northland home where she had outfitted a bedroom with climbing structures.

In testimony, Savorelli and Montes described different versions of Nicholas’ home life. Montes said the monkey slept in her bed with her, and he was well-behaved and happy.

Savorelli painted a picture of an animal that outgrew his bedroom and owner.

“He’s like a bodybuilder,” Savorelli said of Nicholas. “He’s very unique. He’s a powerhouse.”

Savorelli told jurors that Nicholas once trapped Montes in a room for more than a day before she sneaked out. In 2004, he said, Montes asked him to take the monkey back to Monkey Island, and he agreed. He said they both thought it was a permanent move.

“They knew it was a one-way trip,” he said.

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Savorelli just wants his monkey back. had health problems. And as an army veteran and former amateur bodybuilder, she said she was hardly afraid of a 35-pound macaque. She could remember only one story in which his aggression got the best of her: when he stole her keys to his room.

Both sides agreed that Montes became a fixture at Monkey Island after Nicholas moved back to the sanctuary. She visited several times a week and frequently brought fruit and vegetables for the monkeys. She was known for making them peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

But there were problems, Savorelli said, that caused him to sever ties with Montes and which eventually led her to take the animals.

Once, Savorelli recalled, a camera crew was on the compound, to shoot a segment for a Discovery Channel show, when Montes angered a monkey.

“A spider monkey bit her square in the face,” he said. In testimony later, Montes clarified that the monkey, Todd, didn’t have any teeth.

Another time, Savorelli said, Montes took two teenage girls on a tour of Monkey Island.

He found them boating in a pond toward a small island where some monkeys and lemurs spend the warmer months. Todd was in the boat with them. Savorelli panicked about his possible liability if Todd turned violent on the girls.

He could forgive both of those lapses in judgment, Savorelli said. But an accident involving Maggie, a one-armed monkey, led him to banish Montes from Monkey Island.

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eat. She also couldn’t climb as well and had boy,” and “Abbey is my daughter-in-law,” she added. Montes also wrote, “I can’t break my a hard time defending herself. While volunpromise to Maggie,” having sworn to the monteering at the sanctuary, Montes bonded with key that she would take care of her mother.

Maggie, and she took the monkey home with So she took Melissa. her to live. For two years, Montes took Maggie Once she had the monkeys in her posseswith her to Monkey Island whenever she volsion, Montes kept them at her home for a few unteered. Savorelli and Montes agreed that months. Then, in February or March, she drove Maggie had to be on a leash at the sanctuary, them to Maryland, where some friends in the so she wouldn’t wander over to more aggresclose-knit primate community cared for them sive monkeys.

During one trip in late July 2007, somebody for about six months. When authorities told the Maryland friends that they had too many mondropped Maggie’s leash. (Savorelli blames Montes. Montes says it was an unnamed “short, keys, Montes returned and brought Nicholas and Abbey back to Kansas City. Melissa stayed skinny woman” who let the monkey go.) in Maryland, and Montes now says she doesn’t Telling the story on the stand, Savorelli know the monkey’s location. choked up and stopped talking. He said Abbey and Nicholas then lived in Lisa ShinMaggie had walked over to a cage where a kle’s basement. In Septemmale grabbed her remainber 2008, police were called ing arm and chomped down to the residence on an unreon it. Some monkeys have "I can't break my lated matter, but the officers teeth the size of a man’s promise to Maggie." saw the monkeys. Later, ofpinkie finger. Montes got ficers with a search warrant Maggie free and, holding returned to the house and the bleeding monkey in called Savorelli to come and identify the pair. her arms, sprinted toward Savorelli’s house.

“The look on Maggie’s face, I knew I’d never People at the house told officers that the monkeys were named Booboo and Precious, and see her again,” Savorelli said. “I knew that look. they had new ID chips implanted in them. But It was the look of death.” Savorelli broke down Savorelli found their original ID chips still crying on the stand. Maggie died a few days inside them, and he took the monkeys home. later, on August 2.

Joe Shinkle denied knowing that the monkeys “It was a horrible thing for Cathy,” Savorelli were in his mother’s basement. continued. “Cathy loved her to death. We It took the jury a few hours to decide in all did.”

Savorelli’s favor. Montes (who didn’t return a Maggie’s preventable death marked the end of Savorelli’s friendship with Montes. call for comment) was found at fault for taking He wouldn’t speak with her or reply to her the monkeys and was ordered to pay Savorelli $36,500 in punitive damages and $3,500 in e-mails. Montes said she had no idea why she actual damages. Joe Shinkle was ordered to was barred from the place where she had spent pay $1,000. Lisa Shinkle was hit with a $17,000 an average of 20 hours a week for the previous judgment. three years.

Savorelli, who originally filed this lawsuit “I didn’t know what was going on,” she said. in 2010, said he hopes to salvage his friendship “It was quite obvious that I was getting the with Joe Shinkle. cold shoulder.” That’s when she began plan“I didn’t want Joe hit hard at all,” Savorelli ning to take Abbey, Nicholas and Melissa. After said. “He was a pawn. He was played in this.” her Alamo meet-up with Joe Shinkle, she said Savorelli does not share the same optimism she ordered cages and converted her two-car garage into a monkey area. On October 6, she for his friendship with Montes.

“Cathy thinks she won because she still made her move. has the monkey,” said a frustrated Savorelli.

“We got a judgment and won hands-down, but the flip side of that is that the monkey is n the surveillance footage, Montes wears still missing.” a bright-pink shirt and spends more than While waiting for the verdict, Montes told an hour moving around the building. Large The Pitch that she doesn’t know where Melissa brown flies flutter and land intermittently on the camera lens, but never enough to obscure is, but she trusts that she is being cared for.

“I was dealing with people in the primate Montes’ actions. The climax of the film comes world,” Montes said. “These were primate after the acepromazine fails to subdue Nichoexperts. These were people that gave loving las. Montes unlocks the monkey’s shared cage homes and everything else. So, within that with Abbey. Nicholas leaps out, causing Montes sector, I don’t know for sure where she ended to jump back. (The jury gasped at this part.) up, but she had to end up in a loving home.”

Nicholas is softened by the drug but far from Montes added that she is glad she doesn’t docile. Montes traps him in a monkey-sized know where Maggie’s mom ended up. “If ever net. Nicholas continues to fight a little before should a day come that I would be questioned she injects him with ketamine, while Abbey about her whereabouts, I could truthfully say waits in the cage for the same treatment. After I do not know where she is,” she said. loading Abbey and Nicholas into her car, she Savorelli isn’t hopeful that he’ll ever learn returns for Melissa. The final striking image of the tape is Montes walking out of the build- Melissa’s location, even if Montes knows.

“Oh, that old buzzard will never soften,” ing holding Melissa — Maggie’s mom — and he said. “I mean, come on, she’s watched her kissing her. friends go to jail for this and didn’t come to In the two-page note that Montes left for Savorelli in his office that night, she explained their rescue. That is pretty pathetic. She’s fucking cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.” that without Monkey Island in her life, she had become crestfallen. “I’ve withdrawn from everyone,” she wrote. Nicholas “is my baby E-mail ben.palosaari@pitch.com.

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How Kansas is closing in on becoming the first abortion-free state.

n June 1, Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) announced his retirement from the Kansas House of Representatives after nearly three decades in the Legislature. It’s been a banner year for O’Neal. In early January, he was shamed into a public apology for forwarding an e-mail that suggested a physical comparison between the Grinch Who Stole Christmas and First Lady Michelle Obama, or “Mrs. YoMama,” as the e-mail referred to her.

Not long after, O’Neal found himself in hot water for circulating another Obama-related e-mail. The message cited a Bible verse, Psalms 109:8: “Let his days be few and brief; and let others step forward to replace him.”

O’Neal — that rascal — wrote in the accompanying text: “At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president! Look it up — it is word for word! Let us all bow our heads and pray. Brothers and Sisters, can I get an AMEN? AMEN!!!!!!”

Under fire for the comments — 30,000 petition signatures calling for his resignation were quickly rounded up — O’Neal apologized again and explained that he was not casually praying for the death of the president of the United States. No, he was just commenting on Obama’s remaining days in office — you know, like the next line of the Psalm says: “May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.” No, nothing casual about that.

If there’s something O’Neal loathes with as much furious passion as the Obamas and their big-government agenda, it’s that women in his state are legally allowed to make personal decisions about whether to have an abortion. In his emotional farewell speech, O’Neal spoke of being born in “inner Kansas City” and brought to a small town in western Kansas by his adoptive parents.

It wasn’t until years later, he told his colleagues in the House, that the full significance of his adoption sank in.

“I realized how close I had come to being just another Missouri abortion statistic,” he said, having apparently determined that Muck Fizzou Babykillers lacked the rhetorical gravitas he sought to convey.

No longer an endangered fetus, the House speaker has presided over a Republican majority increasingly hellbent on eroding women’s reproductive rights. Gov. Sam Brownback has consistently promised to sign any abortion restriction that crosses his desk, and O’Neal’s House has rubber-stamped virtually every piece of anti-abortion legislation brought to the floor. Only moderate Senate Republicans — an endangered species — stand in the way of making Kansas the Wire-Hanger State.

Some of these rollbacks are already quietly in effect or are soon to be law. Other, more sweeping ones will be introduced in the 2013 session. What does this mean for the women of Kansas? Read on for an unnerving tour of reproductive rights in the Sunflower State. continued on page 10 pitch.com M O NJ T pitch.com UH N EX X–X 1 4 - 2X0, , 220001 X 2

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Laws Already in Effect The 2011 Kansas legislative session was arguably more of an assault on women’s reproductive rights than the one that just finished. Some lowlights you might have missed if you weren’t paying close attention: • H.B. 2218: Bans abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy except in cases where an immediate danger is posed to the woman’s life.

Translation: Only a small number of abortions occur after 21 weeks, but when they do, they’re typically for women who discover serious health complications with the baby. (A number of medical issues are not detectable by ultrasound until around week 20.) Abortion opponents claim that a fetus can feel pain at the 20th week — a position disputed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and numerous other nonpartisan medical organizations.

• H.B. 2035: Before terminating the pregnancy of a minor, doctors must obtain consent from both parents (if still married).

• H.B. 2075: Prohibits any private insurance company from covering an abortion except in cases where that abortion is performed to save the life of the mother. Requires policyholders to purchase a separate insurance rider for coverage.

Translation: Surprising (read: not surprising) to see the state dictating what private companies can and cannot insure. Also, unintended pregnancies and fetal anomalies are not the types of things people tend to plan for. Also, there are no exceptions for rape or incest.

Newly Signed Laws The biggest victory for anti-abortion advocates in the 2012 session was H Sub SB 62: the so-called “conscience bill.” Under this law, which goes into effect July 1, doctors may refuse to prescribe, and pharmacists may refuse to dispense, birth-control pills and morning-after pills (such as Plan B) or any other care that they “reasonably believe may result in the termination of a pregnancy.”

“Our biggest concern with 62 is not just that a pharmacist doesn’t have to honor a prescription,” says Peter Brownlie, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. “It’s that it allows that pharmacist to also not refer the woman to someone who will meet her needs. We’ve had these ‘conscience’ clauses before in this country, but they always require the medical provider to offer referral sources. In this bill, that’s not required.”

Virginia Phillips, of Trust Women, a pro-choice PAC, adds: “The bill will likely have the most effect on low-income women in rural Kansas communities, who will now have to drive across the state and incur additional costs in order to receive basic information and simple care if their only local pharmacist has a moral objection to birth control.”

$644,000 Amount, so far, that the Kansas Attorney General’s Office has paid outside lawyers to defend the state against challenges to anti-abortion legislation enacted in 2011.

382,368 Population of Wichita, Kansas, as of the 2010 Census.

Abortions performed in Wichita since abortion provider George Tiller was murdered in church in 2009 by an anti-abortion activist.

Bills Defeated in 2012 but Likely to Return in 2013 H Sub SB 313: This 70-page omnibus bill would have: • Rewritten the state’s tax code to eliminate any direct or indirect tax subsidy for abortions and abortion providers (such as Planned Parenthood).

• Protected physicians who withhold medical information from a pregnant woman because they believed that disclosure of said information would result in the termination of a pregnancy.

• Required physicians to tell a woman seeking an abortion that doing so would increase her risk of developing breast cancer (a scientifically unsupported statement).

• Prohibited doctors in training at the University of Kansas Medical Center from performing abortions on the university’s property. (“We should not pay residents to kill babies,” Rep. Lance Kinzer, the author of the bill, said during a debate in the House.)

“It’s a hodgepodge of provisions that have been offered before in previous sessions,” Brownlie says.

“Throughout this session, we thought it had a decent chance of passage. To put patients in a position where their physician is allowed to withhold information about their own bodies to them is just particularly egregious. It was essentially Lance Kinzer and his colleagues scouring the tax codes for anything that might remotely touch abortion services — using the Kansas tax code to impose their religious ideologies.”

The bill sailed through the House, 88–31, but was halted by the Senate, which voted against it, mostly over concerns that it would endanger KU Med’s accreditation in its obstetrics and gynecology program.

“It’s an election year, so the bill was a hot potato for liberal Republicans who didn’t want an additional vote on their record,” says Kansans for Life's Kathy Ostrowski. “It’ll be back next term.”

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H Sub SB 313 Roll Call The following local members of the Kansas House of Representatives voted against H Sub SB 313:

The following local members of the Kansas House of Representatives voted for H Sub SB 313:

Barbara Ballard, Lawrence • Barbara Bollier, Fairway • Tom Burroughs, Kansas City, Kansas • Pat Colloton, Leawood

Rob Bruchman, Overland Park • Jim Denning, Overland Park • Owen Donohoe, Shawnee • Amanda Grosserode, Lenexa

Paul Davis, Lawrence • Stan Frownfelter, Kansas City, Kansas • Broderick Henderson, Kansas City, Kansas

Brett Hildabrand, Merriam • S. Mike Kiegerl, Olathe • Lance Kinzer, Olathe • Marvin Kleeb, Overland Park • Kelly Meigs, Lenexa

Kathy Wolfe Moore, Kansas City, Kansas • Louis Ruiz, Kansas City, Kansas • Mike Slattery, Mission • Tom Sloan, Lawrence

Robert Montgomery, Olathe • Charlotte O’Hara, Overland Park • Michael Peterson, Kansas City, Kansas • John Rubin, Shawnee

Sheryl Spalding, Overland Park • Kay Wolf, Prairie Village

Arlen Siegfreid, Olathe • Greg Smith, Overland Park •Ron Worley, Lenexa

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ansans for Life is the most active and from a doctor based on a medical evaluation.

Plan B does not. You have to ask the pharmapolitically powerful anti-abortion organization in the Sunflower State. The group has cist for it, but anybody can get it. Plan B gets advocated and lobbied for recent restrictions none of the safeguards that birth-control pills get. And so the pharmacist is taking on abortion rights in Kansas. The Pitch recently spoke to its legislative director, Kathy on a legal responsibility there. Who will be blamed for blood clots or other complicaOstrowski.

The Pitch: House Bill 62, the “conscience” tions that result? The pharmacist. He could be sued if it turns out to be harmful to the bill, was signed into law and goes into effect next woman’s health. month. It permits pharmacists to refuse to disWould a pharmacist really be sued for pense birth-control pills or the Plan B pill if they that? Has that ever happened? morally object to doing so. Did your organization Who knows? Look, the irritation to us is consider this a victory?

Ostrowski: We’re pleased about the con- that we’re a pro-life, anti-abortion organization. In Kansas, an abortion is a drug or science protection. But the idea that women procedure given to someone known to be in Kansas won’t be able to get Plan B is not accurate. You can get Plan B or birth-control pregnant. The line between the chemical and the surgical is blurred. Plan B is maybe pills overnighted to you online from Canada or not an abortion per se, India or wherever. Women but it’s part of a chemical in Kansas will have no probreproductive cartel that’s lem getting Plan B before or “We want a bumping up against what after July 1. we’re trying to do as a proWhy even lobby to pass society where life group. the law, then?

Is the ultimate goal of It’s a hedge. For the docabortion is not Kansans for Life for Kantors and pharmacists who sas to be the first state in don’t want to participate just illegal but the union where abortion in this chemical assault on is illegal? women — and it’s a very unthinkable.”

We have no plaque on small percentage, but the our wall that says that. ones who want to continue We’re trying to be a conto not dispense these pills sistent pathway that eduand not lose their jobs — cates people that abortion is harmful, that it their rights are strengthened. They arguably kills the next generation, and that it’s harmhad this protection before July 1, but now it’s stronger and clearer. The previous law was 40 ful to women. The Supreme Court doesn’t years old, and there weren’t chemical abortions allow states to have discussions like that. then. This updates the law for physicians and They’ve closed down normal process on that. We feel that the Supreme Court will pharmacists. eventually change its mind, just like it did Do you believe Plan B should be a legal, when it said that black people were threeaccessible drug? fifths of a person. We’re trying to create Plan B is a unique drug — it’s the same a culture of life. We want a society where components as birth control, but multiplied. abortion is not just illegal but unthinkable.

Birth-control pills require a prescription

A Moderate Referral voted it down. It was very disappointing to me. There’s no reason not to have that in there.

When you’re making a decision about whether to terminate or carry a pregnancy, you need all the information you can get — from both sides.

It’s hard for me to understand because these amendments were helping make women more medically informed. They claim that these bills are about what’s best for women in Kansas, but in situations like this, that’s not true, in my view.

H.B. 313 also would have required physicians to inform patients that abortions cause breast cancer, which is scientifically unproved.

Clearly the intent is to scare women. There is some statistical evidence that women who have a miscarriage, or never become pregnant arbara Bollier is a retired anesthesiologist, at all, may have an increased risk of breast cana former bioethics instructor at the Kansas cer. But there’s no research or data about the City University of Medicine and Biosciences, causes and effects. Nothing has been proved.

With that, they’re trying to extrapolate that and a Republican representing the 25th District idea to include terminated pregnancies, which in the Kansas House of Representatives. (Her doesn’t make sense medically. There are many constituency includes Fairway and parts of Prairie Village, Overland Park, Mission Hills different causes for losing a pregnancy, and we don’t know how any of it relates to breast and Westwood Hills.) A moderate, Bollier cancer. I’m getting kind of medical here. But voted against the anti-abortion bills that the that’s the point! Why are House passed in the 2012 people trying to practice session. The Pitch caught medicine in the Legislature? up with her to get her take “When you’re You start to get into some on recent legislation. making a decision complex medical terminolThe Pitch: You were one ogy, statistics, etc. That’s of the few local Republicans about whether to what doctors are supposed who opposed House Bills terminate or carry a to do, not state legislatures.

62 and 313. You even introWhat was your objecduced two amendments to pregnancy, you need tion to H.B. 62, the “con313 that were voted down. all the information science” bill?

Why did you introduce My biggest problem is those amendments? you can get — from the word “refer.” PharmaBollier: If you get an both sides.” cists and physicians who abortion in Kansas, you object morally to abortion receive a handout from and birth control no longer the state with information have to refer patients to someone who will on it about abortion. In 313, they’re adding a lot of language to that handout. It’s this very help them. I spoke to a number of pharmacists before this bill came to the floor, and they extensive embryological saga about the development of the fetus: On this day the heart all said the same thing: If you don’t believe in something, you have every right not to do develops, on this day the lungs develop, etc.

It’s all accurate information, as long as it’s it. But to refuse to refer a patient is different. related to a normal pregnancy. And I felt like That’s imposing your religious beliefs, or whatever belief system you have, on someone else.

— I know — that some women are choosing to And that’s just wrong. We’re supposed to have terminate a pregnancy because the fetus is not developing normally, in which case that freedom of religion in this country.

Why do you think these bills get so much supinformation is inaccurate. So all I wanted to add was a sentence that said, “The following port in the House?

I think, in general, it gets very stressful in description of fetal development refers to normal pregnancy. If your doctor has diagnosed the House when there are abortion bills on the a fetal anomaly, you can access more infor- floor, no matter what side you’re on. Lots of people want to be considered completely, 100 mation on such conditions either from your percent, with Kansans for Life. If they don’t physician or the NIH website.”

I approached members of the commit- know where Kansans for Life stands on a certain issue, they’ll just vote “No” to be safe. tee and was told they wouldn’t support it.

As a Republican, does it worry you to vote So I asked the secretary of health to look against these bills? at my amendments, and he agreed that My district is moderate and has been that they were reasonable, and he went to the way for a while, and I believe I represent the committee and informed them that the KDHE [Kansas Department of Health and majority. I bring my background in medicine and bioethics into my votes. With abortion, Environment] supported it. But the leader of there are always people on both sides, and peothe committee refused to include it. ple differ on it. But it’s so little of what we do.

Are you referring to Rep. Lance Kinzer?

Yes. So I brought the amendment to the House, and everybody followed the leader and E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com

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QUADQUICENTENNIAL BLOWOUT This year, Browne’s Irish Marketplace (3300 Pennsylvania, 816-561-0030) celebrates its 125th anniversary, making it a true survivor among local businesses. Today beginning at 3 p.m. (and Friday, June 15, beginning at 5), the corner shop is throwing a big Irish Street Faire birthday bash, with music, food, games, dancing and general craic. More than a half-dozen bands are scheduled to play, including the Kelly Band and the Elders. Beer, including Smithwick’s and Guinness (naturally), and Browne’s pub food are available for purchase. Tickets cost $10 in advance or $12 at the door. See brownesmarket.com for more information.

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orget Facebook. Few advances in technology have changed the country more than the Transcontinental Railroad, which not only opened up the western half of the country for development and trade but also prompted the use of standardized time. Learn about this massive undertaking — and its effect on the country — when Kyle Wyatt, curator of history and technology at the California State Railroad Museum, talks at 7 p.m. about “Breaching Mountains, Crossing Deserts: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad” at the Linda Hall Library (5109 Cherry, 816-363-4600). The event is free, but e-tickets are required. Register at lindahall.org.

— A PRIL FLEMING

BARBECUE IN THE PARK

“If it walks, I can barbecue it,” says the Rib Doctor, aka Guy Simpson, whose special rub is available at local retail outlets. He and the Baron of BBQ, aka Paul Kirk, are leading a how-to course at Shelter No. 3 in Macken Park (1000 Clark Ferguson Drive, North Kansas City) about their favorite form of cooking.

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— CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

F R I D AY | 6 . 15 | DIVERSE VERSES

The Writers Place (3611 Pennsylvania, 816-753-1090) works hard to elevate KC above “cracker central” status. Case in point: its Third Friday reading series, which focuses

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on diversity in 2012. Tonight’s theme is A Celebration of Queerness: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives. “Straight members of the audience can learn from this group. They will see that where deep emotions and convictions are concerned, all of us, straight and gay, have a great deal in common,” says organizer and participant Wayne Courtois. Hear poetry, fiction, memoir and humorous essays from rainbow representatives at 7 p.m. A $5 donation is suggested. For more information, see writersplace.org.

— BERRY ANDERSON

TAKIN’ CARE OF BUSINESS

Plug Projects (1613 Genessee) in the West Bottoms is an artist-run space. “The five of us at Plug Projects share the mission of bringing fresh perspectives and conversation to the local art community,” says artist and entrepreneur Cory Imig. Plug and the Fishtank Performance Studio (1715 Wyandotte) are the subjects of the Double Vision Lecture at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784).

Imig and Fishtank curator Heidi Van discuss the business of managing artist-run spaces.

Happy hour at 5 precedes the 6 p.m. lecture in the main meeting room. Admission is free.

See kemperart.org for more information.

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nly the homophobic need fear the clowns performing at this month’s French Cabaret show at the Uptown Arts Bar (3611 Broadway, 816-960-4611).

Dennis Porter makes up one-half of Cirque du Gay, a clown and drag duo that’s bawdy enough to make Fred Phelps blush. Porter is one of several featured clown artists slated to juggle, perform puppetry and even tame lions at the monthly cabaret coordinated by local mime Beth Byrd and backup band Belleville.

“You’ll find out the true story of what happens ‘under the big top,’ ” Byrd promises. The event runs from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Seating begins at 6:30. Cover is $10. See uptownartsbar.com.

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When people tell Kansas City Star columnist and freelance writer Matt Keenan that they don’t like kids, he tends to agree with them.

“Many parents do a terrible job raising their own children,” he says. “I can say that, now that mine are grown.” His latest book, Call Me Dad, Not Dude: The Sequel, is full of his best columns about the trials, tribulations and triumphs of raising teens. Just in time for Father’s Day, Keenan signs copies from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Oak Park Mall Barnes & Noble (11323 West 95th Street, Overland Park, 913-492-8187).

— BERRY ANDERSON

RAISE A GLASS

Pleasantly surprised by the quality of Kansas wine, De Soto City Administrator Patrick Guilfoyle envisioned an event where festivalgoers could purchase bottles from local vineyards. But Kansas law prevented such transactions. “Well, let’s just change the law,” Guilfoyle thought. Mission accomplished. The

law change takes effect today, which is the same day as Winesong at Riverfest, a celebration of Kansas wine. A $15 ticket includes 10 tastings (14 wineries are represented), appetizers from local farms and a souvenir glass.

The event runs from 4 to 8 p.m. at Riverfest Park (33440 West 79th Street, De Soto). Call 913-689-8740 or see winesongatriverfest.com for more information. — NANCY HULL RIGDON

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ne Week KC — nine days, actually, of big thinkers networking — started Monday. Today, the innovators, entrepreneurs and tech evangelists gather for iKC, billed as the “premier conference on innovation and entrepreneurship.” The day starts at 8:30 a.m. with “breakout sessions, expert speakers, Fire Up pitches, Inspire Talks [and] networking opportunities” at H&R Block headquarters (One H&R Block Way) in the Power & Light District. Michael E. Raynor, a director with Deloitte Consulting LLP, gives the keynote speech. Tickets cost $189 (corporate), $119 (start-up, small business and nonprofit) or $75 (student). If that’s too pricey, head over to PBR Big Sky (111 East 13th Street, 816-442-8145) for the afterparty from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information and the full list of events, see oneweekkc.com. — J USTIN KENDALL

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Thanks to Powell Gardens’ Missouri Barn Dinner Series, folks can enjoy a Sundayevening family-style dinner, featuring local flavors prepared by renowned local chefs. Tonight’s installment of the new series features Caenen Castle’s Renee Kelly, who prepares crab cakes, panzanella salad and marinated beef tenderloin. The event begins at 6 p.m. in Powell Gardens’ Heartland Harvest Garden (1609 Northwest U.S. Highway 50, Kingsville).

A $75 ticket includes a before-dinner cocktail

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and wine pairings. Prepaid reservations are required. Call 816-697-2600, extension 209, or see powellgardens.org for tickets.

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ehold the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department’s swirlbowl slide, the main attraction at the city’s newest aquatic center, the Bay Water Park (7101 Longview Road, 816-350-2628).

Climb five stories to the top, dump yourself down and whirl blindly around the inside of the bowl before falling into an 8-foot-deep pool. Definitely not recommended for wimps, pregnant women or those with sunburned backs. Find out more at thebaykc.com.

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During 50 years in the clergy, Roger Coleman has ministered to many unusual characters, like local serial killer Bob Berdella. For Coleman, pastor of midtown’s progressive, nondenominational Pilgrim Chapel, serving people who are shunned or misunderstood by society is at the heart of his mission. The highlights of his career are collected in his new book, Prankster of God: Confessions of a Wayward Priest, published this month by the local Spartan Press. Hear him read from the volume at Prospero’s Books (1800 West 39th Street, 816-531-9673) at 10 a.m. Reservations are required for this free book-signing event, which includes a light meal. Call 816-753-6719 or e-mail laurie@clergyservices.com.

— CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

M O N D AY | 6 . 18 | FAIR-WEATHER FORBES

Remember how Sharp’s bar in Brookside had that warm, neighborhood-y vibe? Casual, easy and a tad greasy? That scene has been gone about four months. These days, the lounge half of Michael Forbes Bar & Grille (128 West 63rd Street, 816-333-4355) is fancy, in an

Armour Hills dining-room kind of way, but comfy enough for mothers to bring their children to load up on half-priced mussels during happy hour: 3–6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.–close. If that doesn’t tickle you, just enjoy a delicious pickle martini at one of the sidewalk tables. It feels just as Brookside-ish.

— BERRY ANDERSON

T U E S D AY | 6 . 19 | SOLO SHOW

Of course there’s innuendo in the title of Alicia Solombrino’s first art show. Mi Arte: poke.my.dot consists of a collection of small, simple, reasonably priced paintings by the provocative local musician. Most of the works consist of circles and circle patterns. “Polka dots relax me,” explained Solombrino, who wore a polka-dot dress to the First Friday opening. Her little paintings are on display at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634) this month. Proceeds from sales will be split between her band, the Beautiful Bodies, and the estate of the group’s late guitarist, Michael Corte.

— CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

reported from the front lines of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And he seemed to take special pleasure in exposing the Bush empire. Today, the award-winning journalist pays a visit to Kansas City’s Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400), where he gives a free 6:30 p.m. lecture promoting his new memoir, Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News, and answers some hard questions from Crosby Kemper III. A reception begins at 6. RSVP at kclibrary.org.

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But in today’s war-on-women media climate, where reproductive rights and equal pay are still hotly debated, maybe some female solidarity is what we need.

And it’s a testament to the smarts, skills and talents of the exhibiting artists that this show isn’t buried under the weight of politically charged activism and the loaded symbols of its focus medium. Instead, the work is fresh and conveys the distinctive individual sensibilities and interests of each artist, despite some broad themes.

Sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a Washington, D.C.–based institution dedicated to the artistic achievements of women, Women to Watch features pieces by five local artists who create using the requisite media. (A single artist from the group represents the region in a group exhibition in Washington this fall.)

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Installation shots including, at top right: “Wall Curtain,” “Cone (Sleeve),” “Pouch (Hooked)” and “Square (Rolled)” by Tracy Krumm

(available in the Epsten Gallery) relates the tale of a trip to Europe that Wallace F. Holladay and Wilhelmina Cole Holladay historical movements, which used a visual vocabulary of stripped-down forms purged took in the 1960s, when the couple first of adornment or personal touch. Her slabs of encountered paintings by 17th-century industrial felt deny fabric’s traditional ties to Flemish artist Clara Peeters. As the NMWA’s development department tells it, upon the decoration and domestic comfort.

Kincaid’s beaded re-creations of nature couple’s return, they “discovered that none photographs dazzlingly reflect the same galof the leading art history textbooks referlery light that Gross’ woolly enced Peeters or any other felt absorbs. Her delicate female artist.” Wilhelmina Women to Watch 2012: portraits of the f leeting established the museum in Focus on Fiber beauty of blossoms and of 1981 as a tool to develop a & Textiles sunlight flickering through revisionist history of art — Through June 24 at the branches are pure pleasure one that included women.

Kansas City Jewish Museum to take in.

Fiber arts, in particular, of Contemporary Art’s Krumm, whose work played an important role Epsten Gallery, 5500 West travels to Washington in in that expanded version 123rd Street, Overland Park, 913-266-8413, kcjmca.org the fall, presents sculpof art history. Textile art, tures that together form long categorized as a craft a study in opposites. She (and, therefore, held in crochets thin metal wires to create an inlower regard than painting or sculpture), was traditionally women’s work. With their tricate fabric (like a chicken coop), which she uses to shape airy forms supported by rich history and politically loaded status, fiber and textiles proved to be effective media heavy books, blades and other found-metal for artists looking to challenge traditional objects. The results are simultaneously roles, and became fertile ground for scholars whimsical and sinister, sturdy and fragile, comforting and discomforting. seeking women whose artistic output had The complexities inherent in Krumm’s escaped notice. work reflect the vibrant, varying nature of the Sonié Ruffin and Debra M. Smith represent other pieces on display. This is artwork that those more traditional textile media with overcomes the bland, unfocused rubric imtheir eye-catching quilts. Tracy Krumm, Jessica Kincaid and Marcie Miller Gross posed on it by the exhibition’s name. There’s more here than “women” and “fiber” and the instead use unexpected materials: glass quotation marks around those words. beads; crocheted brass, copper and nickel; blocks of industrial felt. Gross’ work recalls minimalism, one of the most macho artE-mail feedback@pitch.com pitch.com

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Named “Crystallized” and labeled as either The fifth exhibition co-curated by Cory warm or cool in tone are Jessica Labatte’s inkjet Imig, Amy Kligman, Misha Kligman, Nicole prints of arranged triangles. The shape ties Mauser and Caleb Taylor brings together a together a number of the works in Dramatic dozen works that make sure, frank use of color Chromatic, and because of the flattening of (lots of colors, all together) to stimulate the eye. what are paper objects here, it’s easy to spend The vibrant hues — emerald green, shockingly a lot of time watching these trompe l’oeil prespure printer’s magenta, supersaturated yellow, entations as they seem to dance. deep cobalt, primary red — might be expected There’s no mixing in the works here, with to scream and clash. Here, though, they’re the exception of Kim Eichler-Messmer’s welcoming. The five artists (counting a pub“Color Wheel Quilt.” Here, in a splendid piece lishing pair as one) present together well, and spanning nearly 7 feet, is color itself, in 144 the works chosen for Dramatic Chromatic are different saturations, all individually handarranged around the perimeter of the gallery dyed through Eichler-Messmer’s masterful rectangle to volley colors back and forth across process. The wheel is a beautiful study, and the space. It’s a quiet set of multiple dialogues. she reports on her blog that she has plans for “Clown” is indeed a garish creature, with an even bigger, more meticulous one. outlines that can be interpreted as eyebrows, For Kansas City gallerygoers, Bussell and and a four- or five-colored bull’s-eye that might Eichler-Messmer are probably the only known be a single ocular opening artists. Among the less or maybe a nose. Ashley’s familiar names are the coDramatic Chromatic inflatables (one called “Tall editors Amanda Curreri and Through July 7 at Plug Tail” is propped up across Erik Scollon of Color&Color Projects, 1613 Genessee, the room in the diagonal books — three are on display plugprojects.com corner) appear slick from at the gallery, including the afar but show some grit up latest, C&C#3: Red&Green, close. The white vinyl, with its intentionally which debuted at the opening. It’s a curious sloppy swaths of paint, doesn’t ask to be petthing to design around two theme colors, and ted so much as it begs for a quick, hard punch. the books themselves also introduce artists Joe Bussell’s stacked discs of paint — driedwhose works prompt further exploration. up latex remnants from the bottoms of cans Overall, Dramatic Chromatic immerses us in he has used for other work (such as the three a prism of possibilities, a place where narrative, “Spit Series” paintings hanging nearby) — are figures and context are stripped mostly away, likewise untouchable, but they’re honest. All for the enjoyment of pure color. they ask is that you see them as they are — just paint, cleverly arranged as sculpture. One is E-mail feedback@pitch.com 2

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That’s the basic takeaway of Rock of Ages, which uses Tom Cruise to try cranking the successful off-Broadway jukebox musical up to 11. The movie makes it to about 4, mostly because of Cruise’s high-singing, liquor-guzzling, fur-draped turn as busted Sunset Strip casualty Stacee Jaxx. Squinting through Axl Rose-colored glasses and shaking his wig through GNR’s “Paradise City,” the star makes Jaxx a Los Angeles bloodsucker to match the desiccated-rocker version of that Anne Rice character Cruise played in Interview With the Vampire almost 20 years ago. This time, he pretty much nails the part.

And that’s really saying something, because he has to sing Bon Jovi’s “Wanted Dead or Alive” and Foreigner’s “I Wanna Know What Love Is” back to back. Which is where the American Idol part comes in: The level of musical talent on display here, despite an almost off-puttingly game cast, is barely worth a text-message vote, let alone a $10 ticket.

Yeah, yeah, that’s kind of the point for director Adam Shankman and screenwriters Justin Theroux and Allan Loeb (sharing credit with the play’s author, Chris D’Arienzo). This is winking nostalgia delivered by voices that mostly belong to people who should roll the windows up tight when they sing in the car.

But the shock of Rock of Ages is that its karaoke versions of a bunch of B-list AOR charters make you miss the relative craft of the originals. Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” — sung here by a chunk of the cast in one of this indulgent movie’s glacial montages — is, by any reasonable measure, an abhorrent piece of music. But it works on the radio because you’re hearing it performed, with the conviction of men under tight contract,

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by the idiots who thought it up. Even when they don’t mean it, they mean it more than poor Paul Giamatti could possibly mean it.

The same goes for most of the other songs on the bloated Rock of Ages tablet. Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand’s showpiece reading of REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” becomes a rainbow anthem to unexpected dude love, thereby dedicating way more thought to the song than it can structurally tolerate.

What counts for plot (boy meets girl, boy and girl suffer sub-Three’s Company sexual misunderstanding, boy joins boy band, girl starts dancing at Mary J. Blige’s strip club, Journey ensues) has similar load-bearing issues. Its young leads, Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta, have narrow shoulders, even for this exercise in MTV cultural anthropology. (For Hough, this is something of a sequel to the Footloose remake she starred in last year.) Boneta’s “I Wanna Rock,” his char-

Tom Cruise get his Jaxx off. acter’s first big stage moment, comes out sounding a little cartoon-mousey. But realityTV talent shows have made the world safe for generic, thin singing, meaning here that Baldwin, Brand and Catherine Zeta-Jones sound — well, they at least all sound like grown-up people.

Def Leppard never got around to licensing “Rock of Ages” to the production that’s borrowing the title, and Europe’s “The Final Countdown,” prominent in the stage version, is MIA here. But there’s ample FM-dial compensation in hearing three — count ’em — Foreigner songs in the movie. And why not? At 123 minutes, Rock of Ages isn’t so much a hot single as it is a double concept record played by a DJ who has locked himself in the booth.

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ow, whad’ya know, another Def Leppard-title-borrowing rock musical — one about the invention of the vibrator.

Oh, wait. Those songs were just in my head.

Hysteria is, in fact, a markedly unmusical 2011 Maggie Gyllenhaal leftover that’s slightly more entertaining than a case of vulvodynia. It would take an all-Stones score to make this horrid little thing even 10 percent more watchable.

Director Tanya Wexler’s overstarched version of British orgasm history makes a petticoated feint toward a lesson in women’s rights, but Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer’s screenplay is about as feminist as the last two minutes of An Officer and a Gentleman. It’s the kind of movie in which a frigid woman complains that the title affliction has rendered her unable to sing and later bursts into an aria when Hugh Dancy’s idealistic doctor works her clit just so.

(Surely there’s an outtake in which the sound of her ecstasy shatters a crystal goblet.)

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So goes an old saying, one that’s more or less the story — in a toasted hazelnut shell — of childhood friends Guy Tamburello and Paul Anselmo.

For 18 years the two operated a popular Italian restaurant — the original Café Italia on North Oak Trafficway — until the neighborhood changed dramatically. “First the movie theaters at the Metro North Mall closed,” Tamburello says. “That hurt our business. And then the mall closed, and that area just seemed to die.”

The business partners sold the building in 2010 and went on to work in different careers. “We never had any plans to get back into the restaurant business,” Tamburello says, “especially in this economy.”

But last year, the two former restaurateurs were offered a nice deal on a vacant Japanese steakhouse in Parkville.

Tamburello and Anselmo E R O M liked what they saw: a free-sta nding building with a big, sunny T A INE ONL .COM patio and an intimate H C PIT bar. Even the fish in the tropical f ish tank were somehow still alive, though the space had been empty for months.

The new Café Italia, with a slightly edited version of the original menu, opened last November. Tamburello says it has been profitable since the first day, and I’m not surprised.

This retooling of the original is a vast improvement in every possible way.

For one thing, the dining area is spacious and warm. If the North Oak Café Italia reflected the brassy spirit of 1960s ItalianAmerican restaurant décor (trellises dripping with plastic grapes and artificial ivy), the new joint is unfussy and sleek.

Tamburello and Anselmo have created a kind of exhibition kitchenette in a corner of the dining room, using one of the previous tenant’s teppanyaki exhaust hoods and installing a pizza oven (where miniature loaves of bread are also baked), costly pasta-making equipment (all of the pasta served here is made on the premises), and Tamburello’s favorite new accessory: a gelato machine.

Tamburello has been experimenting with different flavors. So far, he says, hazelnut is the hands-down favorite.

Complementing the goldenrod walls and dark woodwork are lots of windows. I wouldn’t call the view spectacular, but from certain tables, you can occasionally watch a train go racing past, rattling the windows.

It’s a small thrill left over from a bygone era.

A more immediate and satisfying thrill is the scampi torino: sautéed shrimp in a thick, bubbling cream sauce fragrant with garlic and sherry. Save some of the sauce for the warm, homemade bread that is set

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out to be deceptively, outrageously filling. (I’d pounced on the bread by the time it arrived, so that didn’t help.)

The five veal dishes on the Café Italia menu on your table. Bread is an important comare uniformly delicious, but the slightly more ponent of Italian-American culinary tradiexpensive (and somewhat more politically tions (my waistline is a testament to this), correct) bistecca con spezzi is divine. The and there’s something comforting about these pretty little yeasty loaves arriving at slices of succulent beef tenderloin are nearly fork-tender and draped with a mahogany the table just in time to be topped with a mushroom-peppercorn sauce that dares you slice of spicy capicola ham and a square of not to clean the plate by any gorgonzola and a dollop of means at hand. chunky caponata from an Café Italia Of course, not everyantipasto plate that’s generAntipasto plate .............$10.95 one — and especially not I ous enough to hold its own Scampi Torino ................$9.95 — can make a regular diet as a light summer meal. It Insalata Toscana............$9.95 of decadent cream sauces. goes fine with an ice-cold Pollo limonata ...............$16.95 On two of my visits to Café house salad or the fancier Bistecca con spezzi.....$23.95 Italia, I took a more healthinsalata Toscana, a jumble Pollo Antonina ...............$15.95 Gelato...............................$5.95 con sc iou s approac h to of g reens, apple slices, temptation and chose an orange segments, cranberexcellent pollo limonata ries, grapes and walnuts. and pollo Antonina. Tamburello’s college-age Light, however, is a foreign word here.

Most of the pasta dishes on the secondi piatti son, Peter, who was working in the kitchen when I dined there, does a deft job with the list are unabashedly rich. Even one night’s limonata, a simple dish of sautéed chicken, special, a bowl of freshly made bucatini (a white wine and a splash of lemon juice. Even hollow pasta tube, the thickness of a computer cable) looked simple enough, heaped better is the lemony, garlicky Antonina, draped in basil amogio, that tangy Sicilian with cubes of seared eggplant, salty Kalamata marinade of olive oil, garlic, butter and lemon. olives and a sprinkle of parmesan, but turned

Clockwise from above: chow-worthy cioppino, bruschetta and tiramisu.

A hefty dinner at Café Italia — all of the entrées include salad or soup and bread — is a monument to big appetites, but the owners look askance at any customer paying his or her bill without at least a taste of dolce. The airy tiramisu is so light on the espresso that it could be an Italian cream cake, but Tamburello’s huge and stupendously wonderful chocolate layer cake calls for 4 pounds of bittersweet chocolate just for the frosting. It really has to be the best of its kind in the city.

But Tamburello is particularly proud of that gelato. I tried, and loved, the hazelnut and the coconut versions, but I couldn’t muster much enthusiasm for the chocolate walnut. (The salted pistachio had long since sold out on the evenings I visited, so I never got to try so much as a spoonful of it.)

Parkville’s Café Italia proves the point that the second version of a popular restaurant can outclass the original. And if you don’t believe me, ask Tamburello or Anselmo. They’ll sit right down at the table and tell you the whole story. Just make sure to ask for extra bread first. They’ll want you to eat while you listen.

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he ingredients for s’mores are simple enough: marshmallows blackening in the fi re, chocolate oozing between a pair of hastily broken graham crackers, a deep and abiding commitment to changing the way we use and understand public spaces.

Designer Kurt Flecksing figures that the first two aren’t a tough sell. (And he has them covered; more on that in a minute.) It’s the third that’s really driving his S’mores, the rebuilt food cart that he introduces from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at 429 Walnut.

“There’s something charming about s’mores,” Flecksing says. “There’s this fun element that draws people in for a conversation. Once there, I’m hoping they’ll start to look more at their surroundings.”

The cart began as a collaboration between Flecksing and Sean Starowitz, one of the cofounders of Bread KC. The two met as undergraduates at the Kansas City Art Institute and hatched the idea of creating a micro-funding revenue source for public art. The S’mores Project received a Rocket Grant in 2010 from the Charlotte Street Foundation, and in February of that year, its first s’mores were cooked over an open fl ame in front of the Urban Culture Project’s Paragraph Gallery.

“The initial idea for the S’mores Cart came from the current climate of how the creative world is being financed,” Flecksing says.

“There are all these different platforms, like Kickstarter. And in the arts, it’s always been about giving to the creative process, about donating to the creative process. But with the S’mores Cart, you actually interact and, through that interaction, contribute to the public conversation. You’re helping to improve the public space while contributing to it.”

But for Flecksing, it was not only about reaching the public but also about creating a viable business that could stand as a physical reminder of the organizations or individuals that it helped support. To that end, Flecksing wants to partner with area artists — a S’mores mug from a local ceramist is one of the products in development — and have signage around the cart that reminds people to connect with the space they’re inhabiting and the producers of the goods they’re buying.

“The arts are in this amazing bubble where artists can experiment, but I think the 21st century is going to be about taking art out in the world,” Flecksing says.

Over the past two years, his focus has shifted from how art can transform or define public spaces into looking at functional design. And the first item that needed his attention was the cart itself. He worked with the health department to design a propane burner — it heats lava rocks in a pan attached to the front of his cart — in order to secure a vending license. And now that the cart is

Flecksing brings a new trend to an old food friend. ready, Flecksing says he intends to use the initial proceeds to fund projects from artists, urban planners, architects or urban designers.

“This will be a transparent process,” he says. “I’ll notify the public that I have this much money for this round of funding, establish a deadline, and let it know exactly what kind of work the money will support.”

As for the campfire treat itself, Flecksing says his recipes also are evolving. The “All-American,” made with Nabisco graham crackers, Hershey’s chocolate and bagged marshmallows, is at the center of his menu, but he also plans at least one premium s’more at a time. Potential partners include Christopher Elbow for chocolate, pastry chef Natasha Goellner of Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott for marshmallows, and the Soho Bakery for graham crackers.

Flecksing is frank about his own chef abilities. “S’more’s are easy — there’s a reason I picked them,” he says. So he plans to rely on the public for recipe ideas as part of the ongoing conversation. Flecksing envisions a time when S’mores might provide his sole income and also act as a micro-grant generator for others. For now, he says, freelance design contracts, teaching workshops on recycled materials at elementary schools, and house painting are what keep his cart in marshmallows. He has invested about $4,000 of his own money in the project.

“This is a way to create revenue for creative production in our city, and it’s not just about the urban arts core,” he says. “I’d cook s’mores in a NASCAR parking lot, if they’d let me, because I just want people to have conversations about public spaces.”

And why not? After all, it’s in that moment between wiping marshmallow off your chin and licking chocolate from your fingers when that other campfi re tradition gets under way: telling stories.

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organ Spurlock, of Super Size Me fame, music to be its own entity,” he continues.

“There’s no way I could have ever predicted now has an original series on Hulu called this show would go on to what it is or the A Day in the Life, in which he brings viewers bevenue sizes we play.” hind the scenes of the lives of some of the most Before the confetti and the Charmin and interesting people on the planet. So far, the the LEDs, he explains, there were some pretty guest list has included Mario Batali, Richard Branson and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. slow nights. “I started doing this in 2000 and I would say, up to 2006, I pretty much never OK, so the subjects have been a little on the drew more than 30 people,” he says. “I was overexposed side of the interesting-people really putting on the theatrics for nobody.” spectrum. Give or take Gregg Gillis, better But a few years ago, the world caught up known by his stage name, Girl Talk. with Girl Talk, allowing Gillis to indulge his “I thought it was really well-done, [though] sense of stagecraft on a much larger scale. it was really only a half a day in the life,” Gillis “Now that the shows are tells The Pitch with a laugh. big … we have legitimate, “It kind of felt like watchGirl Talk stadium-sized props and ing a show on A&E about a Saturday, June 16, visuals and all of that,” profession or a pawnshop at the KC Live Stage, he says. “In a weird way, or whatever. They really Power & Light District there hasn’t been much of focused on the work aspect a departure from the goal. and getting the show done.

Where the show is now conceptually is the They hung around all night. It was a weird, fully realized version of the imaginary thing alien environment, and it was hard to pretend that was going on in those early years. I think they weren’t there.” at those early shows, I always wanted it to be a What makes Gillis’ day fascinating? The big production, but I didn’t have the resources show doesn’t necessarily make the answer for it. Even when I was playing these 10-person obvious, and it’s not going to settle the critical shows, it was kind of like a pretend arena show debate surrounding Girl Talk’s artistic merit. for me. I had outfit changes and everything.”

The Pittsburgh native’s playful, sample-heavy When Girl Talk began, Gillis’ biggest cosDJ sets sell out large venues, and that alone has made him a celebrity as well as a backlash tume change was slipping out of a lab coat.

When he started tinkering with samples, he magnet. He delivers a crowd-pleasing, dancewas working as a biomedical research engineer. inducing spectacle, complete with confetti, But as Girl Talk evolved and he began to book toilet paper and LED lights. shows, he soon realized that he would need to “The live-show aspect was always a big leave his 9-to-5 career behind. part,” Gillis says. “I knew how I wanted to “I quit the day job because when it was goperform live even when I fi rst started making the music. As far as taking sample-based ing on, it was a little bit crazy,” Gillis says. “I never told my co-workers what I did. It wasn’t music and trying to make it something that’s transformative, I think the live presentation like I could go up to the guys at work and say, ‘Hey, I DJ at night and usually end up stripping and even the album artwork, live visuals and all of those things really kind of go hand down to my boxers.’ In the early days, it was really performance art, and I was only doing in hand with that goal. I’ve been framing one show a month, so I didn’t really feel the the show that way. need to explain myself.”

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Gillis has said in interviews that his shows have become bigger than his albums, and there’s a lot of truth to that. A Girl Talk show is an experience, and that’s impossible to recreate in the studio. They are living, breathing, animalistic events that have overtaken Gillis’ original Girl Talk vision.

And those records take time to make. With each song a feverish collision of unlike music — deep-crate samples and jack-in-the-box superhit cameos slotted into somehow-cohesive little suites — making a full-length takes serious time. He has now released five studio albums on the Illegal Art label, mashing up Missy Elliott and Grizzly Bear, for instance, or slapping Ludacris onto Rush. The most recent remains 2010’s All Day, which consists of an astonishing 372 overlapping samples.

Part of the gap between albums is because Gillis hasn’t stopped touring for the past four years. “I’m on the road about half the year, and I definitely get tired from time to time,” he says. “I think touring has become more of a production. I’ve brought so many people in, and the business side of things is a lot more complicated now.”

Complicated enough to attract the occasional TV crew, for one thing. But Gillis isn’t really complaining. “I don’t dislike that,” he says of the responsibilities that go with being a name-brand entertainer, “but it’s not the fun aspect of it. There is more of a work aspect to doing things than there used to be.

If I felt really tired or beat up, I think I would just take the time off, but I feel like I’m riding a wave right now. I never intended this to last for any period of time, so the fact that people are still coming out and people still like the records, that keeps me going.”

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2:42—Jadakiss featuring Swizz Beatz and OJ Da Juiceman, “Who’s Real” 2:50—New Edition, “If It Isn’t Love” 2:52—Radiohead, “Creep” SShimmy Ya” Ya 3:05 —Ol’ Dirtyy Bastar Bastard,, “Shimmyy Shimmy

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5:08—Prince and the New Power Generation, “Gett Off” 5:09—Beastie Boys, “Hey Ladies” 5:09—Iggy Pop, “Lust for Life” 5:15—White Town, “Your Woman” 5:18—Lady Gaga, “Love Game”

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T H U R S D AY, J U N E 1 4 Easton Corbin: Kearney Amphitheater at Jesse James Park, 3001 N. Missouri 33, Kearney, 816-903-4730.

Elenowen, Bryant Carter: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Randy Rogers and Kip Moore: 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 13th St. and Grand.

F R I D AY, J U N E 15 Alice Cooper, Venrez: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Bottle Rockets, Levee Town: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

The Good Foot, the Grisly Hand, Flannigan’s Right Hook, Three Dollar Band: 5-11 p.m. Browne’s Irish Market, 3300 Pennsylvania, 816-561-0030.

Alistair Hennessey, My Brother the Vulture: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Jumpin’ Fun Arts with Marvin Hunt, Danny Cox: 6 p.m. Performing Arts Center; Kansas City, Kansas, Community College, 7250 State Ave., 913-288-7504.

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Gin Blossoms (left) and Wymond Miles

Pinback, with Tim Kinsella

Mid-’00s contemporaries Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie broke through to the mainstream playing a similar kind of cold, earnest rock, but no such luck for Pinback.

The San Diego act is maybe a little too unassuming for the masses — no monster hooks, no sexy back story — but the dynamic interplay between core members Rob Crow and Zack Smith has resulted in some very smart, fresh, math-y (in a good way) rock songs over the years. Opener Tim Kinsella is a veteran of Cap’n Jazz, Owls, Joan of Arc, and a few other bands that shepherded emo music into a more mature, musically inventive place.

Thursday, June 14, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

KKFI New Blood: The Next Generation

John Velghe & the Prodigal Sons, Amy Farrand, and Hearts of Darkness are among the local acts lined up for this fundraiser for community-radio station KKFI 90.1. Promoting the city’s culture on the airwaves can be a thankless endeavor, so throw these folks a bone, or whatever they’re asking for at the door.

Saturday, June 16, at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-931-3122)

Jimmy Cliff, with 77 Jefferson

Jimmy Cliff has been collaborating of late with Tim Armstrong of Rancid, which is

pretty amazing. It’s unclear how that will influence the Grinders performance of the unofficial reggae ambassador to the world, but I’m thinking it couldn’t hurt. The local reggae dudes in 77 Jefferson open.

Friday, June 15, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 816-472-5454)

Gin Blossoms

Gin Blossoms never got much critical love, and the cool bands of today never cite them as an influence. They deserve better. New Miserable Experience is an alt-rock classic, stacked with pop-rock hit after pop-rock hit.

And who among you will deny the chops so plainly evident in such songs as “Lost Horizon” and “Til I Hear It From You”? I dare you to do so in my presence.

Friday, June 15, at the KC Live Stage, Power & Light District (13th Street and Grand, 816-842-1085)

Summer Breeze: Yacht Rock Tribute

If you like piña coladas or Michael McDonald’s husky voice or riding the way the wind does, you’d do well to stop by this annual party, which returns to RecordBar after last year’s show at now-shuttered Crosstown Station.

Bandleader Chris Sieggen is guiding a crew of local and ex-pat musicians through a set highlighting the easy-breezy sounds of the Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Hall and Oates, Steely Dan, and various one-hit wonders of

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1970s AM radio. The band is tight, and sailing attire is encouraged (seriously).

Friday, June 15, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Broncho, with Be/Non and Soft Reeds

Tulsa’s Broncho runs on the twin engines of classic power pop and punk rock; the band wouldn’t have been out of place on the muchloved Kansas City label Titan Records in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Opening are two local bands that also draw inspiration from the sounds of the 1970s: Soft Reeds (nervous glam rock) and Be/Non (theatrical psych).

Friday, June 15, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Sacred Bones Records is pretty much killing it these days. The label’s current roster includes the Men, Zola Jesus, Psychic Ills, and Moon Duo — also, Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, who just released his moody, Britishsounding, ’80s-influenced debut LP, Under the Pale Moon, on the label. Opening this FOKL show is Gemini Revolution, a new project from Monta At Odds’ Dedric Moore.

Thursday, June 14, at FOKL Gallery (556 Central, 913-209-5977)

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Barry Manilow: Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

Torche, the Slowdown: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Don Williams: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Eric Hutchinson, Avalanche City: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Anna Rae, Kristen Ford, the Clementines: 6 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300.

The Romantics: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

T U E S D AY, J U N E 19 Idina Menzel: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 0 Crossfade and more: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Moonface: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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The Elders, Barleyjuice, Eddie Delahunt, the Kelly Band, and more: 4-11 p.m. Browne’s Irish Market, 3300 Pennsylvania, 816-561-0030.

Girl Talk: KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 13th St. and Grand.

Greensky Bluegrass: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Hunter Hayes: 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 13th St. and Grand.

OCD: Moosh, Twist, AER, Joc Woods, Jet Moran: 8:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Under the Streetlamp: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816283-9900.

Viking Moses, Teenage Mysticism, Margo May: Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

ZoSo: Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

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THURSDAY, June 21 The Flaming Lips: Liberty Hall, Lawrence REO Speedwagon, Styx, Ted Nugent: Starlight Theatre FR IDAY, June 22 The Flaming Lips: Liberty Hall, Lawrence S AT UR DAY, June 2 3 Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw: 4:30 p.m. Starlight Theatre Korn: Uptown Theater

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Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Krash Karma.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. The Rackatees, the Shidiots.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Fierce Bad Rabbit, Cloud Dog, Ezza Rose, 9 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Broncho, Doubleplus, 10 p.m.

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Junebug and the Porchlights.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cadillac Flambe, Les Racquet, Hot Dog Skeletons, 8 p.m.

Frontier Park: 15501 W. Indian Creek Pkwy., Olathe, 913-9716263. Trampled Under Foot, Mark Selby.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Nick Hern Band.

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The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Shades of Jade.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Lonnie Ray Blues Jam. Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666.

The Old Crows.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Levee Town.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, Bluegrass Missourians.

Kanza Hall: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders.

Park Place: 117th St. and Nall, Leawood, 913-381-2229. The Okee Dokee Brothers, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

DJ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

DJ Kool Ed on the patio.

JAZZ Hotel Phillips: 106 W. 12th St. The Stan Kessler Duo with Kathleen Holeman, 5 p.m.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003.

Rich Berry.

Star Bar at Pachamama’s: 800 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-0990. Floyd the Barber with Tommy Johnson, 8:30 p.m.

COMEDY The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Stand Up for Autism Comedy Show with Matt Keck, Brannan Murphy, Doug Cheatem, 7 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Brad Williams, 7:30 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Aura: 3832 Main. All Skate pre-party hosted by Bill Pile and Adam Forrester; happy hour, 6 p.m., party bus leaves for Winwood Skate Center at 8 p.m., pickup at 11 p.m., $20.

Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. A.J. Gaither Presents.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Hot Caution Thursdays.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Karaoke, 7 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Open Mic with Chris Tady.

Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam, 7 p.m.

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Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Revolution Circus, 9 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

The Del Toros, Hossferatu, Dead Deers, Mondo.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

The Outtakes.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Big Science, Going to Hell in a Leather Jacket, Radar Defender, 10 p.m.

ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Depth and the Whisper, Loves It, Betse Ellis.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. The Shanks.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Albert Flasher.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Red Kate, the Bad Ideas, Matti Matt.

Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. The Outlaw Junkies.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, GS IN T Fast Food Junkies.

LIS E AT N I L Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, ON M Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Sunflower PITCH.CO Colonels.

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DJ 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Loftis.

Aura: 3832 Main. Sunglasses at Night Party with Nathan Scott.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Mingle with Team Bear Club.

The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ Chris.

JAZZ The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m.; Dan Doran Band, 9 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. Passport.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-6429090. Happy Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842. Cancun Raver.

VA R I E T Y Rex Farm: 15906 Smart Rd., Pleasant Hill. The Author and the Illustrator, A Stranger’s Craft, Mammoth, Le Grand, Overnight Religion, the Whurlitzers, and more, 3 p.m.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. French Cabaret, 7 p.m.; Mercury Mad, Betsy Barrat, 10 p.m.

S AT U R D AY 16 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. School of Rock presents the Beatles, 3:30 p.m.; School of Rock presents Rock the Party, 6 p.m.; KingShifter, Haunting Skies, Caucasian Debris, 8:30 p.m.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Promise Makers, 7 p.m.; Drew Black and Dirty Electric, 10 p.m.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. The Broken Divide, Quietly Violent, Mad Libby, Wormhole.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Sobriquet, Fake Natives, OILS. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Parachute Adams.

Legends at Village West: 1843 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-788-3700. Patrick Lentz, 5 p.m.

Nica’s 320: 320 Southwest Blvd., 816-471-2900. Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Victor & Penny, 7 p.m. show is all-ages, 10 p.m. show is 21-and-older.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Scammers, Umberto, Big Waves of Pretty, Monarchs, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.; Blue 88, 9 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Shades of Jade, happyhour show.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Speakeasy, Brother Bagman, Interstate Astronauts, 9 p.m.

Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Christian Franklin & the Forefathers.

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Parkville River Jam with Levee Town, Julia Othmer, Steve Smith & the Sneakers, the Parkville Symphonic Band, and more.

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DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Gold Label Soul with Hector the Selector and Sadie Soul.

The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ Chris.

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VA R I E T Y Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Pinups for Pitbulls with Shorty Rossi, Deirdre “Lil Darling,” Kim Lenz, Whitey Morgan and the 78s, Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company, the Green Goddammits, 6 p.m.

S U N D AY 17 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. The Stolen Winnebagos.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Cloud Dog, Paleo, 10 p.m.

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Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Brother Bagman.

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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

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COMEDY Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Brad Williams, 7 p.m.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913-5419255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Sunday Salvation with Booty Bass, 10 p.m., $3.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777.

Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.

M E TA L / P U N K Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Riven, Klehma, Monsters of Tokyo, Kahldera, 8:30 p.m.

VA R I E T Y Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-561-2444. Local Music Sunday, DJ Dropout Boogie, 8 p.m.

M O N D AY 18 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

Max & the Wild Ones, the Drive Home.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Euphio Question, Mondo, Project H, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS BarnYard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Mudstomp Mondays.

DJ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cinemaphonic, 9 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

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JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Blue Monday Jam with Dwight Foster.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

COMEDY Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main floor, 10 p.m., free.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.; karaoke with Nanci Pants.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322-1000. S.I.N., half-price appetizers, shot and beer specials, 7 p.m.

The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Service Industry Night.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Magic Mondays with Jason Dean.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

VA R I E T Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Opera Supper, 6-9 p.m.

T U E S D AY 19 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Sons of Bill.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676.

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Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

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The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Grenadina, Le Grand, Home and Away, I Am Nation, 8 p.m.

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Trampled Under Foot.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-3280003. Dan Bliss.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Elkheart’s Downtown Outlaw Fiasco, 6 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Borderline Country, 6 p.m.; Sky Smeed, Tyler Gregory, Tinhorn Molly, 9 p.m.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m.

The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. The Dropout Boogie, 10 p.m., free.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. DJ Pure.

JAZZ McCormick & Schmick’s: 448 W. 47th St., 816-531-6800. Passport.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. The Brian Ruskin Quartet.

Sullivan’s Steakhouse & Saloon: 4501 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-345-0800. Candace Evans Duo, 6 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders, 9 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-3459717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m.

403 Club: 403 N. Fifth St., 913-499-8392. Pinball tournament, 8:30 p.m., $5 entry fee.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Karaoke, Ladies’ Night.

Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill: 3601 Broadway, 816-2148732. Karaoke with DJ Chad, 9 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-236-6211. Karaoke.

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m.

Strikerz Entertainment Center: 18900 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence, 816-313-5166. Ladies’ Night, live DJ, 9 p.m.

The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Pop Culture Trivia.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Trivia, 8 p.m.

Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-856-1514. Pride Night, 8 p.m.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 6 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Open-mic night.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, $2.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816833-5021. Blues, country and classic rock hosted by Rick Eidson and friends.

R O C K A B I L LY Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Miss Major & Her Minor Mood Swings, 7:30 p.m.

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Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Indie Hit Makers Presents: Q&A panel with Clayton Severson, 6 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Amy Farrand’s Weirdo Wednesday Social Club, 7 p.m., no cover.

The Replay: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Mutant Monster Beach Party on the patio, 10 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m.

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Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. It’s Karaoke Time.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

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Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m.

Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m.

The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration starts at 9:30 p.m., tournament starts at 10 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. DiCarlo’s Mustard Seed Mexican-Americana Restaurant & Bar: 15015 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, 816-373-4240. Blues, country and classic rock hosted by Rick Eidson and friends .

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666.

Dave Hays Band Open Jam. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Open-mic night for poets, musicians.

W E D N E S D AY 2 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Great White, and more, 6 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. The Supermassive Black Holes.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666.

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RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Life and Times, Beta Capsule, With Knives, 9 p.m.; Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.

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Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003.

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The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Lonnie Ray Blues Band.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Kyle Elliott.

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Two quick things: Getting dumped sucks.

It would’ve hurt just as much if she had dumped you via Goodyear blimp or if she had shown up in person. People do most of their communicating via text, so old notions about text-message dumpings don’t apply these days. A longish, thoughtful and well-written text message is now a legit way to dump someone. Particularly someone you’ve been dating for only two months.

Let’s say your girlfriend had waited until she was back in town. Then you would be complaining about how you passed on a date with a woman who — hey, you never know — could’ve been your soul mate while your ex was stringing you along.

The best course of action when you’ve been dumped by someone you really liked is to accept the bad news with as much grace as you can muster. The world is full of couples that got back together after a breakup, and your odds of being in one of those couples shrink if you act like an asshole (which it doesn’t sound like you’re doing) or if you convince yourself that your ex is an asshole (which it sounds like you’re doing).

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Dear Dan: Two years ago, I fell in love with a man. (I’m a bisexual woman.) A friend decided to take that as her cue to declare her love for me. I turned her down. This same conversation had to happen repeatedly. A few weeks ago, at a party at her house, she got sloppy drunk and said that if she only had a penis, I’d be with her. She became touchy-feely and agg ressive. At one point, she told a man there that they needed to get me drunker so I’d have sex with her. When I confronted her, she said her drinking was because I had been too harsh when I turned her down. Then she said I’m constantly cruel to her, and that’s why she drinks. When I suggested ending our

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Dear Dan: I’m a 16-year-old straight male — I think. I’m not totally sure about the sexuality. I’m into chicks. There’s nothing I love more than vagina. I have a girlfriend, and she’s amazing. But recently, a gay friend told me that he has a crush on me and has for a long time. He asked me to be his “friend with benefits.” Plain and simple: He offered to give me head. I haven’t texted him back.

I’m not against the idea. I’ve never thought about having sex with a dude, but I’m an open-minded person. But one of my main concerns is that I’m in a relationship.

What Should I Do? Dear WSID: Ask your girlfriend if she’d be OK with you getting head from your gay friend. If that’s not a question you can bring yourself to ask her, then don’t think about becoming FWB with your gay friend.

As for your sexuality …

If there’s nothing you love more than vagina — really? not your mom? not even oxygen? — then you’re defi nitely not gay.

You could be bisexual or heteroflexible. But I’m thinkin’ what you are is 16 and horny as shit. If a talking skunk with a French accent walked into your room and offered you a blow job, you’d probably say yes.

A sex expert I quoted in a recent column observed that a person can have a kink that overrides his “usual erotic ‘target interest,’ i.e., women.” You’re not kinky, just horny.

But the combination of intense adolescent horniness and a rare blow-job opportunity has overridden your usual erotic target interest, i.e., women.

Gay/straight FWB arrangements can work.

If you want to take your friend up on his offer, clear it with your girlfriend first or wait until you’re single. And if you’re so tempted to do this that you’re considering doing it behind your girlfriend’s back, that’s a pretty good indication that you’ll be single soon.

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Extra nice for the money. Newly refurbished 2 & 3 BR duplexes only $675-$720. Family friendly culdesacs close to schools and shopping.

Near I-35 and Choutea • Large Kitchens • Patios

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• Large Yards • Full Basements

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• W/D Hookups • Garages

Boveri Realty Group Unique Opportunity in the Crossroads Art District!

816-853-8369

WALDO PL AZA DE $99 Quiet, Comfortable 1 & 2 bedrooms in SUPER neighborhood!

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$570 - $650 No Application Fee!

816-363-8018 Stonewall Court Apts 1-Bdrms starting at $395 central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping, nice apts, Sections 8 welcome $100 Deposit (816) 231-2874 M-F 8-5 office hours

Last Chance / Fresh Start Leasing Downtown Area

Holiday Apartments

BRING THIS AD IN FOR $20 UTILITIES $110/WEEK OFF YOUR $100/DEPOSIT* Month to Month Rent FIRST 2 Laundry facilities - on-site PAID! WEEKS * Restrictions apply Call (816) 221-1721 -Se Habla Espanol ALL

$595,000

Features Include: • 4 Bedroom / 4 Bath • 6,000 square foot • Blocks from Power & Light District • Zoned for living and for working • Tons of Natural Light • Exposed Wood Beams, Brick Walls & Polished Concrete • 2 Kitchens • Attached Garage & Off Street Parking • Tax abated

Christina Boveri 816-333-4040 Tricia Cartwright 913-620-3852

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Boveri Realty Group

Don’t Miss this Opportunity!

426 W. 5th St. KC, MO. 64105

NORTHLAND VILLAGE $100 DEPOSIT ON 1&2 BEDROOMS

Unbeatable location with great highway access!

$525 / up Large 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts and Townhomes Fireplace, Washer/Dryer Hook-ups, Storage Space, Pool.

I-35 & Antioch • (816) 454-5830

the Stylish Apartments in Historic Midtown Building STUDIOS, 1&2 BEDROOMS • All utilities included • Off Street Parking • Laundry Facilities 816-531-3111 • Huge Windows 1111 W. 39th St. • High Ceilings KCMO

WILLOWIND APARTMENTS

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments Starting @ $425

3927 Willow Ave • KCMO 64113 816.358.6764 pitch.com

$675,000

Features Include: • Exposed Brick • Beautiful Hardwoods • Awesome location in Rivermarket • Timber Beams • Garage Parking/Rear Parking • Boasts 7,620 Sq Ft.!

• Freight Elevator • Vaulted Ceilings • Great Rooftop Views • Three Stories

Andrea Buettner 816.806.9492 andrea@boverirealty.com Christina Boveri 816.606.1398 christina@boverirealty.com JUNE 14-20, 2012

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816.218.6759

DUI/DWI, KS, MO

Real Estate & Bankruptcy Reasonable rates! Evening & Weekend appt.

Susan Bratcher 816-453-2240 www.bratcherlaw.biz

$99 DIVORCE $99

Simple, Uncontested + Filing Fee. Don Davis. 816-531-1330

HOTEL ROOMS

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AFFORDABLE ATTORNEY

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DOWNTOWN AREA STUDIO APT $110/WEEK Min.

$100 Deposit, All Utilities Paid, Laundry Facilities. On Metro Bus Line as of 10/3/11. Holiday Apts, 115 W. Harlem Rd, KCMO 816-221-1721 Se Hable Espanol

6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. ,HBO,Phone, Banq. Hall $39.95 Day/ $159 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

SPEEDING, DWI, POSSESSION, ASSAULT FREE CONSULTATION Call: The Law Office of J.P. Tongson (816) 265-1513

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. ,HBO,Phone, Banq. Hall $39.95 Day/ $159 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

HOTEL ROOMS

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

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PT or FT, flexible schedules, work when you want. FREE energy drink for applying (in person). Special consideration for college students. Call 816-520-5456 to set an appt.

TRAFFIC & DWI DEFENSE

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913-742-1477

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$99 DIVORCE $99

Simple, Uncontested + Filing Fee. Don Davis. 816-531-1330

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PT or FT, flexible schedules, work when you want. FREE energy drink for applying (in person). Special consideration for college students. Call 816-520-5456 to set an appt.

T & J Plumbing & Drain Cleaning

24 Hours/ 7 Days a Week Commercial-Residential Industrial-Water Heaters Underground Utilities-Water & Sewer Drain Cleaning plus more......

913-927-2250

* DWI * * CRIMINAL * * TRAFFIC * Practice emphasizing DWI defense.

Experienced, knowledgeable attorney will take the time to listen and inform.

Free initial phone consultation.

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